GREEN HORNET
(GANGSTA’S PARADISE) TRAILER 2011
“I threw up a little bit in my mouth when I saw this trailer.”
Quote-shadowgeek10
I seriously hope this is as BAD as the film gets … but I doubt it. After seeing the trailer above, I just wanted to make a few comments before the movie premiered. I was always a casual GREEN HORNET fan, my first exposure to the character coming from his guest starring appearance on the campy 60’s BATMAN television show.
The Green Hornet is a collection of serialized dramas, originally on 1930s radio and then in a wide variety of media, that follow the exploits of a masked crime fighter, created by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker, with input by radio director James Jewell, for an American radio program in the 1930s.
The character also has appeared in film serials in the 1940s, a network television program in the 1960s, and multiple comic book series from the 1940s on, [1] and a feature film to be released in January 2011. Though various incarnations sometimes change details, in most incarnations the Green Hornet is Britt Reid, a newspaper publisher by day who goes out in his masked "Green Hornet" identity at night to fight crime as a vigilante.
He is accompanied by his similarly masked sidekick and confidante Kato, who drives their car, equipped with advanced technology, called "Black Beauty".
Most people are more familiar with the character due to the fact that his sidekick (60’s incarnation) was portrayed by the cultural icon and late martial artist: Bruce Lee. In fact it is said that the program was known “The Kato Show” in Hong Kong. This aspect was comedically touched on in the flawed biopic “Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story.
I really don’t know what to say about the "Green Hornet" other than … “I REALLY didn’t want SETH ROGAN as the character.” And it’s not because he’s an overweight, marginally funny, homogenized Hollywood archetype. I just felt that the "Green Hornet" could have been more than an action buddy comedy … something Rogan is well versed in having spent the last decade building his career on those types of films.
This film version of the character had been in the works for decades. In the 1990s, the magazine Comics Scene reported that George Clooney and Jason Scott Lee were lined up to play the leads. In the late 1990s, music video director Michel Gondry worked with RoboCop screenwriter Edward Neumeier on a possible Green Hornet adaptation. Subsequently, screenwriter John Fusco created a screenplay for the film around 2002.
As of the summer of 2004, Kevin Smith was writing a screenplay, that he would direct, for a movie of The Green Hornet, which was originally scheduled for release in 2005. After a long downtime in which his status with the project was unknown, Smith announced at the 2006 Wondercon that he no longer had anything to do with The Green Hornet.[
On June 4, 2008 Sony Pictures announced that, through their subsidiary Columbia Pictures, they are going ahead with plans for a feature film of the superhero to be released on January 14, 2011. The film stars Seth Rogen, who co-wrote the script with Evan Goldberg. In September, the studio announced that Stephen Chow would direct the film, and co-star as Kato, but by mid-December, Chow had stepped out as director over creative differences. On February 24, 2009, Columbia Pictures announced that Michel Gondry would direct the film, in which Chow would still play Kato, Taiwanese actor/singer Jay Chou was recast as Kato. Cameron Diaz appears in the film as love-interest/reporter Lenore Case. Nicolas Cage was cast as Chudnofsky, the Green Hornet's nemesis, but was replaced by Christoph Waltz.
… I have to be Honest … You got Nicolas Cage bolting from a movie. “Doesn’t this fact set off any bells or red flags? This movie feels like a HOT MESS. Perhaps I’ll be proven wrong and pleasantly surprised, but I doubt it.
With this NEW movie version the audience is going to go from VAN WILLIAMS …
… to SETH ROGAN
The movie going audience is going from BRUE LEE …
BRUCE LEE
… to JAY CHOU
JAY CHOU
I will be reviewing this film with extremely lowered expectations. I’m simply expecting an irreverent “buddy” film with some vfx and sight gags. I’ll try to be optimistic.
But just remember, you’re getting this …
When you could have had this …
GREEN HORNET (SHORT FILM)
...shadowgeek10 returns to the shadows once more ...